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August 8th, 2008 by leslie · No Comments

For Sale: rBGH Food activists are celebrating this week after the announcement that Monsanto will divest Posilac, surely a sign of a stumble before a fall. Food & Water Watch wants your help encouraging more corporations to rid their dairy supplies of rBGH.

Europe says no to clones The European Food Safety Authority refused to endorse the safety of milk and meat from cloned animals in a report issued last Thursday, calling for better research.  The report, along with a more positive recommendation from a European ethics committee, will both advance to the European Commission, which will ultimately decide whether to allow the meat industry to market clone meat to consumers.

Do you recall… As Bonnie P. points out at the Ethicurean, another ground beef recall was issued in the middle of the night earlier this week. Unfortunately, concerned hamburger eaters won’t be able to check the USDA site to see if they ate/how to avoid eating contaminated food, as the search feature only applies to retail outlets, not the food service and institutional establishments this beef went out to.

Obama speaks vegan-ese Nikki Benoit of Florida Voices for Animals took Obama to task on food and farming issues last week at a Town Hall Meeting, then posted about the experience for vegan.com.

Plea-bargaining for pizza Tremayne Durham of New York pleaded guilty to murdering Oregon man Adam Calbreath in exchange for a fast-food reprieve from jail food.  The story gets even more bizarrely food-related — Durham had traveled to Oregon to confront his victim’s former boss over the botched sale of an ice cream truck.

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